of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Medicine, the National Academy of Inventors, and an elected Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (2015). He is an elected Fellow of the Materials Research Society, American Chemical Society (Inaugural Class), Institute of Physics, International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC), American Association for the Advancement of Science, and World Technology Network, and Honorary Fellow of the Chinese Chemical Society. In addition he belongs to the American Physical Society, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE), Optica, Biophysical Society and the Society for Neuroscience. Lieber is Co-editor of the journal Nano Letters, and serves on the editorial and advisory boards of a number of science and technology journals. He is also a sitting member of the International Advisory Board of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Tel Aviv University. Pumpkin growing Since 2007 Lieber has grown giant pumpkins in his front and back yards in Lexington, Massachusetts. In 2010 he won the annual weigh-off at Frerich's Farm in Rhode Island with a 1,610-lb pumpkin, and returned in 2012 with a 1,770-lb pumpkin that won 2nd place in that year's weigh-off but set a Massachusetts record. His 1,870-lb pumpkin in 2014 was named the largest pumpkin in Massachusetts and ranked 17th largest in the world that year. In 2020, the year of his arrest, he grew a 2,276-lb pumpkin that currently holds the record for the largest ever grown in Massachusetts. See also Molecular electronics Nanoparticle Self-assembly References External links Lieber Research Group Website Harvard Chemistry and Chemical Biology page Harvard Paulson SEAS page 1959 births Living people American nanotechnologists Carbon scientists 21st-century American chemists American technology writers 21st-century American inventors Harvard University faculty Columbia University faculty Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Fellows of the American Chemical Society Foreign members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Scientists from Philadelphia Franklin & Marshall College alumni Stanford University alumni Jewish American scientists 21st-century American Jews Members of the National Academy of Medicine Fellows of the American Physical Society